diff --git a/packages/python/build.sh b/packages/python/build.sh
index 74cd3c3c2..1e766eb34 100644
--- a/packages/python/build.sh
+++ b/packages/python/build.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Python 3 programming language intended to enable clear p
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="PythonPL"
 _MAJOR_VERSION=3.8
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.0
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=2
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=3
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/Python-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=b356244e13fb5491da890b35b13b2118c3122977c2cd825e3eb6e7d462030d84
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="gdbm, libandroid-support, libbz2, libcrypt, libffi, liblzma, libsqlite, ncurses, ncurses-ui-libs, openssl, readline, zlib"
diff --git a/packages/python/distutils-command-build.py.patch b/packages/python/distutils-command-build.py.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c9cd42dc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/python/distutils-command-build.py.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- ./Lib/distutils/command/build.py.orig	2019-11-19 23:19:08.878782120 +0000
++++ ./Lib/distutils/command/build.py	2019-11-19 23:19:18.410915201 +0000
+@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@
+ 
+         if self.executable is None and sys.executable:
+             self.executable = os.path.normpath(sys.executable)
+-
++        self.parallel = 1
+         if isinstance(self.parallel, str):
+             try:
+                 self.parallel = int(self.parallel)